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Maltese Falcon as a Film Noir Film Noir is a French word which means: dark or black film. This is very fitting as Film Noir and the Maltese falcon are stories of dark deceptive people who often cannot be trusted. Film Noir is a good example of this as the story is about a detective called Sam Spade who gets dragged into the quest for the Maltese Falcon with a compulsive liar Kasper Gutman. The Maltese Falcon is a large bird made of solid gold worth millions. The main

The two texts, The City of Glass and The Maltese Falcon, are both based on the detective genre and within these are the basic characteristics of human beings in the face of various external factors. With The Maltese Falcon oriented to the modernism period, there are general expectations on the revelations of truth, time moving in a chronological sequence, and character development to progress the plot. The City of Glass on the other hand is a post-modern novel and highlights many of the characteristics

Two of the first film noir pieces, The Maltese Falcon and Citizen Kane, share many similarities in structure and style. Their biggest similarities are the plant and payoff technique, and meaningless quests the main characters embark upon. In The Maltese Falcon, a detective, Sam Spade, is tasked with finding a golden falcon by Brigid O’Shaunessy. He is not told of the falcon until Brigid’s former partner, Joel Cairo, offers to pay Spade for the falcon. Consequently, Spade discovers Brigid is lying

A hero is someone who always is brave and fearless in the face of danger. He is not flawed and is admired for his heroic deeds by everyone while an antihero is one who lacks the conventional attributes of a hero. When we look at the definition of heroes, most people cannot relate to it. We make mistakes sometimes whereas traditional heroes do not make mistakes, and they are perfect. We compromise on certain issues even if it will not benefit everyone; traditional hero do not compromise, yet they

I have to say right from the word go that this is classic film noir in true Hollywood style, and as detective films go might just be the best acted, best scripted and best directed whodunnit you will ever have the privilege of watching. Bogart plays private eye Phillip Marlowe, hired by a dying old man with two beautiful, but uncontrollable daughters. One daughter is Carmen - played superbly by Martha Vickers - who is being blackmailed, which Marlowe is hired to deal with the blackmailer. He hardly

Solon Bowden 2/9/08 - Paul K. The Maltese Falcon Comparison Samuel Spade of The Maltese Falcon novel by Dashiell Hammett is quite different from Samuel Spade of “The Maltese Falcon” motion picture. The book was written a good decade before that version of the movie was produced and in a much more casual time period. The novel focuses on making Sam out to be a more complex character than the movie does. He is not just “the good guy” as he is portrayed more so in the movie. The time period may

Recently, gender studies have become the main sources of information for understanding gender issues in the society. The masculine and feminine divide used to represent the socially constructed sexual traits which men and women are expected to portray in their relationships and interactions. In The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, the characters strongly conform to socially constructed gender roles in the way they dress, talk and act. This paper explores how the main characters in the novel including

Cormac McCarthy wrote a novel by the name of “No Country for Old Men” in 2005 which was created into a movie of the same name in 2007. The film adaptation represents both continuity within the film noir styles and also breaks away from them in relation to films such as “The Maltese Falcon,” “The Big Sleep” and “The Killers”. In the film there are multiple characters that are hard-boiled and each try to figure out “who did what” and “what happened” for their own individual reasons. This characterization

The film of the Maltese Falcon and the novel of the Maltese Falcon share some stark differences along with certain similarities that the film and novel hold. John Huston who directed the film of the Maltese Falcon shows Sam Spade a little differently as to how Dashiell Hammett portrays him. Both do share some commonalities between them, yet we see a greater split from novel to film in the final scene of the Maltese Falcon. The film portrays Spade as this stoic, cold-hearted detective. Yet, the novel

The Duality of Love and War: an Analysis of How the Love story of Casablanca is a Metaphor America in the Second World War Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) follows Rick’s internal struggle and his eventual decisive action on whether or not to help his former lover. This story, while seemingly innocent enough on the surface, mirrors another, much darker tale; one that takes place on a much grander scale. This is especially evident in the final sequence of the film where Rick helps Victor and Ilsa